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Is this the first college closing announced in 2025?

University Business

24) College closings are expected to uptick over the next five years due to the demographic cliff, and Northland College may be the first of 2025. More from UB: Computer science degrees: How demand has both reduced and improved Northland College has operated at a deficit for eight years, The Minnesota Star Tribune reports.

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Film Director Joins Spelman Faculty as Director of Documentary Filmmaking

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Shola Lynch Spelman College has scored a major coup with the hiring of award-winning filmmaker Shola Lynch as its Diana King Endowed Professor in Film, Filmmaking, Television, and Related Media in the Department of Art and Visual Culture. In 2016, she became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Taking Physics to the People - Dr. Christina Love

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Loves current focus is a web-based citizen science project called Name That Neutrino that she and her students created in 2023, seeking a multitude of volunteers to participate in the process. Through the research, she was able to demonstrate the utility of citizen science for classifying neutrino events in the IceCube detector.

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Murray State University Names Dr. Ron K. Patterson as 15th President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Patterson, who currently serves as president of Chadron State College in Nebraska, will assume his new role on July 1, 2025, succeeding retiring President Dr. Bob Jackson. I am truly humbled and honored to be selected as President of Murray State University," said Patterson. "My

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Will College Pay Off in 2025?

Higher Education Inquirer

Winning Majors (For Now) STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), health, and business majors are the highest paying, leading to average annual wages of $37,000 or more at the entry level and an average of $65,000 or more annually over the course of a recipient’s career. And it depends on what you consider success.

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Italian unis set to strengthen TNE initiatives in India

The PIE News

Moreover, both countries will soon implement the executive program for scientific and technological cooperation for 2025-2027, which would support joint research projects and encourage mobility programs for researchers. “India and Italy have collaborated on more than 130 research projects across various fields, stated Ledda.

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Doctoral Distress: Graduate Program Pressures Impact Student Mental Health

Insight Into Diversity

A 2018 study published in Nature, a journal focused on advancements in science, found that nearly 40% of graduate students globally experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression. Studies consistently reveal troubling statistics. a rate six times higher than the general population.